adversarial-review

adversarial-review is a skill for Claude Code from chrisblattman/claudeblattman. It costs 45 tokens per session (440 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An adversarial review process that uses independent reviewers and a separate synthesizer to examine existing work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to critique a draft, plan, workflow, argument, or implementation against its purpose, evidence, audience, and constraints.
Why use it?
It helps uncover factual errors, unsupported claims, missing requirements, implementation defects, and important risks that a single review may miss.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the starter-kit plugin — 7 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to critique a draft, plan, workflow, argument, or implementation against its purpose, evidence, audience, and constraints.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/adversarial-review
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add chrisblattman/claudeblattman --skill adversarial-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrisblattman/claudeblattman

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install starter-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 3 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for adversarial-review

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/adversarial-review/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/adversarial-review)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/adversarial-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/adversarial-review/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for adversarial-review

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/adversarial-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/adversarial-review.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 440 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00045 $0.00440
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00176
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash fb433543f8a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adversarial-review scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/council.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/starter-kit-claude/skills/adversarial-review/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Adversarial review

Review the supplied work against its original purpose, evidence, audience, and constraints. Read references/host.md and references/panel-execution.md and follow that complete execution contract and the shared Quality and revision contract in council-synthesis.md. The shared scripts/council.py infers this review workflow from its installed directory.

The public default is four fresh local reviewers: skeptic, pre-mortem, completeness checker, and Chief of Staff, followed by a separate fresh synthesis worker. The host and authoring workers do not count as fresh reviewers. Use the review guidance in each bundled persona. If saved or explicitly requested provider seats apply, use those exact seats instead and report the count clearly.

Reviewers independently identify material factual errors, unsupported claims, implementation defects, missing requirements, usability problems, and consequential risks. Give evidence or locations, explain consequences, and propose the smallest sufficient fix. Separate demonstrated defects from uncertain concerns and personal preferences. Preserve the user's intended voice; do not rewrite merely to impose a house style. If there is nothing material to fix, say so. This is not an instruction to invent objections.

The synthesizer weighs evidence rather than counting votes, retains important minority findings, and returns a prioritized set of changes and open decisions. A missing required reviewer makes the result incomplete even when useful synthesis is available. Never call a partial panel a complete review.

Return findings first. Edit the artifact only when the user has authorized revisions, and verify selected changes in the actual final artifact. Preserve accepted repairs, rejected suggestions and held questions in a short working summary. Do not launch another review, multi-round debate, or automatic council after revising. A further review requires a new request or an already commissioned stage and a new archive. If no existing artifact or proposal is available, resolve that missing input or route an explicit development request to Council once.

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 17 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A fb433543f8a1

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adversarial-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository chrisblattman/claudeblattman (474 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 440 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-30.

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